Heretics Have Been Hated From The Beginning Of Recorded Time; They Have Been Ostracized, Exiled, Tortured, Maimed, And Butchered; But It Has Generally Proved Impossible To Smother Them; And When It Has Not, The Society That Has Succeeded Has Always Declined.

-Learned Hand

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Heretics Have Been Hated From The Beginning

Learned Hand

Heretics Have Been Hated From The Beginning Of Recorded Time; They Have Been Ostracized, Exiled, Tortured, Maimed, And Butchered; But It Has Generally Proved Impossible To Smother Them; And When It Has Not, The Society That Has Succeeded Has Always Declined.

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Impossible

Hated

Heretic

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally. As Nearly As We Can, We Must Put Ourselves In The Place Of Those Who Uttered The Words, And Try To Divine How They Would Have Dealt With The Unforeseen Situation; And, Although Their Words Are By Far The Most Decisive Evidence Of What They Would Have Done, They Are By No Means Final.

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Trying

Way